New papers on paleoseismology, active tectonics, and archaeoseismology (Sep 2025)

What a long list we have today! Perhaps a bit more seismic hazard-focussed than usual, but there’s even a study on active faulting and seismic hazard on the moon. Apart from that there are many papers on Asia this time. Enjoy reading and please let us know about your new research for next month’s list.

• Prince, E., Tsukamoto, S., Grützner, C., Bülhoff, M., & Ustaszewski, K. (2025). Deciphering Pleistocene fault activity in the Eastern Alps: Dating fault gouges with electron spin resonance and optically stimulated luminescence. Tectonics, 44, e2024TC008662.
• Buckley, W. C., Williams, P. L., Rockwell, T. K., & Gontz, A. M. (2025). Estimating slip distribution along the southernmost~ 80 km of the San Andreas Fault by examining tectonically offset features. Geomorphology, 109937.
• Melgar, D., Weldon, R., Wang, Y., Bato, M. G., Aung, L. T., Shi, X., … & Dawson, T. (2025). Supershear source model of the 2025 M7. 8 Myanmar earthquake and paleoseismology of the Sagaing Fault: regions of significant overlap with past earthquakes. Seismica, 4(2).
• Štěpančíková, P., Stemberk, J., Tábořík, P., Fischer, T., Findžová, L., & Valenta, J. (2025). Discovering the Čirá–Kopanina Fault: Bridging the Gap between Surface Evidence and Seismic Activity. Lithosphere, 2024(Special 15), lithosphere_2024_192.
• Sagripanti, G. L., & Andreazzini, M. J. (2025). Nuevas evidencias de actividad neotectónica asociadas a la falla Pampayasta-Alejandro. Sección de falla Alejandro-Bengolea, provincia de Córdoba, Argentina. Revista de Geología Aplicada a la Ingeniería y al Ambiente, (52), e034-e034.
• Budsky, A. (2025). Kärnten bebt(e) – Neue Fragen und Aspekte zur Archäoseismologie. Sonderheft zur Carinthia II Naturwissenschaftliche Beiträge zur Heimatkunde Kärntens. (Partly in German, partly in English.)
• Kázmér, M. (2025). The Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem and Earthquakes. Studies at the University of Florence in the early 2000s – Essay review. – Central European Geology (open access).
• Kázmér, M., & Gaidzik, K. (2025). Alpine archaeoseismology. pp. 71-88. In: Budsky, A. (Hrsg.) 2025: Kärnten bebt(e) – Neue Fragen und Aspekte zur Archäoseismologie. Beiträge zum Symposium im Kärnten.Museum am 24.11.2023. Verlag des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins für Kärnten, 72. Sonderheft zur Carinthia II, Klagenfurt am Wörthersee, 176 S. ISBN: 978-3-85328-109-3  Download from: http://kazmer.web.elte.hu/pubs/Kazmer_Gaidzik_2025_Alpine_archaeoseismology.pdf
• Langridge, R. M., Howarth, J. D., Coffey, G., Villamor, P., Ries, W. F., Cochran, U. A., … & Dahl, J. (2025). A multi-event paleoseismic record from the northern Alpine Fault at Marble Hill, Aotearoa New Zealand. Geomorphology, 109945.
• Benzina, M., Draoui, A., Pisarska-Jamroży, M., Guerradi, H., Hebib, H., & Maache, S. (2025). Dissolution as the origin of soft-sediment deformation structures in the Upper Cretaceous of the Noumerat area (Oued Mya Basin, Algerian Sahara). Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association, 101134.
• Shvarev, S. V., Bondar, I. V., Koroleva, A. O., & Komarov, A. O. (2025). Seismogenic Activation of a Fault in the Late Neopleistocene by Deformations in the Topography, Sediments, and Basement Rocks in the Southeast of Fennoscandia. Seismic Instruments, 1-33.
• Marzocchi, W., Meletti, C., D’Amico, V., Lanzano, G., Luzi. L., Martinelli, F., Pace, B., Rovida, A., Taroni, M. & Visini, F. (2025). Guidelines for the Scientific Evaluation of an NSHM: The Legacy of the MPS19 Italian Model. BSSA.
• Abrahamson, N., & Liou, I. (2025). Selection of Design Displacements Using Probabilistic Fault Displacement Hazard Analysis. BSSA.
• Naik, S. P., Shin, H.-C., Jeong, S.-H., Park, K., Hategekimana, F., Lee, J., Y.-S., Kim, Choi, J.-H., & Takao, K. (2025). Comprehensive Analysis of Late Quaternary Faulting and Earthquake Potential on the Cheongun‐Dong Fault, Southeast Korea: Implications for Intraplate Seismic Hazards in a Slow Tectonic Regime. BSSA.
• Serva, L., Livio, F. A., Bonadeo, L., & Colombo, M. (2025). The use of the area deformed by earthquakes (deformed area method) for potential fault capability assessment. Nuclear Engineering and Design, 444, 114380.
• Stewart, D. (2025). Locating historical sources for the scientific analysis of pre-instrumental Chilean earthquakes and tsunamis. Macrohistoria, (8), 26-49.
• Antoine, S.L., Shrestha, R., Milliner, C., Im, K., Rollins, C., Wang, K., Chen, K., & Avouac, J.-P. (2025). The 2025 M_w7.7 Mandalay, Myanmar, earthquake reveals a complex earthquake cycle with clustering and variable segmentation on the Sagaing Fault. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 122 (33) e2514378122.
• Keshty, Y., & Carey, T. J. (2025). Optimizing Magnitude Scaling Relationships in Simplified Liquefaction Triggering Procedures Using Ground Motion Intensity Measures. Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, 151(10), 04025119.
• Benavente, C., Audin, L., Palomino, A., Rosell, L., García, B., Aguirre, E., … & Costa, C. (2025). Tectonic complexity of the Incapuquio Fault System, Peruvian Andes: Paleoseismic evidence for cascading Mw7 earthquakes along the Western Andean Front. Tectonophysics, 230877.
• Vance, G., Kirschner, D., Willett, S. D., & Pellissier, L. (2025). Drainage reorganization and intraspecific genetic diversity of riverine fish in the Ligurian Alps and Northern Apennines. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 130(8), e2024JF008028.
• Zang, K., Wu, C., Gao, Z., Wang, X., Yuan, H., Zhang, J., … & Ma, Y. (2025). Late Quaternary crustal shortening rate of the Wensu fault-bend fold in the southern Tian Shan, NW China. Journal of Structural Geology, 105536.
• Mouslopoulou, V., Begg, J. G., Polonia, A., Nicol, A., Reston, T. J., Cesca, S., … & Gasperini, L. (2025). Hellenic Subduction System and Upper‐Plate Structures Revealed by Deep High‐Resolution Seismic‐Reflection Profiles and Seafloor Bathymetry. Tectonics, 44(9), e2025TC008943.
• Sun, X., Shao, Y., Zheng, W., Zhang, D., Bi, H., & Du, J. (2025). Paleoearthquake sequence in the eastern segment of the Serteng Shan frontal fault (Hetao graben, North China) during the last 50 ka. Tectonophysics, 230894.
• Tyagi, A. K., Kumar, D., Murari, M. K., Singh, R. N., & Singhvi, A. K. (2025). Viscous heating in sediments as a’Zeroing’mechanism in luminescence dating of sand dikes for paleoseismological investigations. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 670, 119578.
• Tournier, N., Fabbri, S., Damanik, A., Anselmetti, F., Wiguna, T., Cahyarini, S. Y., & Vogel, H. (2025). The large-magnitude earthquake potential of an active strike-slip fault system in Lake Poso, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia. Sedimentologika, 3(1).
• Engelberg, S., Agnon, A., Sagy, A., & Wetzler, N. (2025). Systematics of the Fault‐Zone Seismogenic Width of Strike‐Slip Plate Boundaries. Seismological Research Letters.
• Xu, G., Ren, J., Liu, Y., Ma, C., Yi, Y., Lv, Y., & Xu, X. (2025). Revisiting surface ruptures of the 1955 Zheduotang earthquake (Mw 7.1) in eastern Tibet: kinematic implications on the southern Xianshuihe fault zone. Journal of Structural Geology, 105540.
• Mishra, A., & Kumar, P. S. (2025). Tectonic history and seismicity in the lunar north polar region: New insights from the geometry, kinematics, resurfacing ages, and seismic hazard potential of lobate scarps. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 130(8), e2024JE008639.
• Godano, M., Larroque, C., Delouis, B., Ampuero, J. P., Arzu, F., Courboulex, F., … & Ritz, J. F. (2025). Back to the source: Connecting the seismological observations of Le Teil earthquake (Mw 4.9, 2019/11/11, France) to the local geology. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 130(9), e2025JB031133.
• Wu, C., Yuan, H., Zang, K., Yuan, S., Bai, X., Guan, C., … & Wang, X. (2025). Late Quaternary normal faulting within the rigid Ili Basin: Insights into the deformation pattern of the northern Tian Shan, NW China. Quaternary Science Reviews, 369, 109600.
• Suter, M. (2025). Early Macroseismic Intensity Observations, Isoseismal Maps, and Instrumental Recordings of Earthquakes in Mexico (1888–1934): A Review. Seismological Research Letters.
• Syvitski, J., Normandeau, A., & Lajeunesse, P. (2025). Major Holocene glacio-isostatically-induced earthquakes triggered mass-transport deposits and seabed displacements in Lake Melville. Marine Geology, 481, 107482.
• Zang, K., Wu, C., Gao, Z., Wang, X., Yuan, H., Zhang, J., … & Ma, Y. (2025). Late Quaternary crustal shortening rate of the Wensu fault-bend fold in the southern Tian Shan, NW China. Journal of Structural Geology, 105536.
• Elbanna, A., Abdelmeguid, M., Asimaki, D., Tainpakdipat, N., Lavrentadis, G., Rosakis, A., & Ben‐Zion, Y. (2025). Supershear Earthquakes: Their Occurrence and Importance for Seismic Hazard, Early Warning, and Design Standards. Seismological Research Letters.
• Naik, S. P., Chufal, V. S., Khaing, S. N., Thant, M., Tun, S. T., & Bhan, U. (2025). Macroseismic intensity estimation based on earthquake environmental effects (EEEs) for the 2011 Tarlay earthquake, Myanmar: a case study from intraplate tectonic setting. Geosciences Journal, 1-21.
• Zhang, J., Song, X., Han, N., Li, C., Li, T., & Shan, X. (2025). Geometric control of the 1985 Wuqia Earthquake Rupture: insights from optical image correlation. Geophysical Journal International, 243(1), ggaf308.

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